WA Reflections – Our History Rediscovered Recipients Announced

WA Reflections – Our History Rediscovered Recipients Announced

Screenwest in collaboration with the State Library of Western Australia is excited to announce the recipients of WA Reflections – Our History Rediscovered, sharing in $90,000 of funding.

Stories from the State Library of Western Australia Collection will come to life through a series of six projects which will provide new opportunities for our community to see the depth and richness of the collection. Stories from Western Australia’s history, currently held within letters, diaries, journals, oral recordings and even blueprints, will be uncovered and explored through this exciting new initiative.

The projects range from a dramatization of a ballroom murder mystery, the First Nations perspective on an iconic scientific event, a celebration of WA’s musical history in the 60s, a creative exposé of our streets, a journey of prospecting in the goldfields from the 80s to the present, to an immersive VR in depth look at famous Perth architect Iwan Iwanoff’s designs.

Screenwest CEO Willie Rowe is excited at the breadth of stories to be explored. “These uniquely Western Australian stories will be reimagined by a great group of Western Australian creatives, in a wonderful synergy to share our stories with our community. I’m excited to see the final projects and again very thankful to the State Library for their contribution to this initiative.”

State Library of Western Australia, State Librarian and CEO Margaret Allen said, “ The State Library is delighted to support this initiative to bring Western Australian stories  to life. The creative responses to these diverse stories will transform the way people engage with archives and collections and we value the partnership and expertise of Screenwest in collaborating with us to make this possible.

The State Library of Western Australia has contributed over $60,000 to the initiative, with Screenwest contributing $30,000 to enable this diverse group of emerging and mid-career WA factual filmmakers the opportunity to tell these stories from their creative perspective.

WA Reflections Recipients

Letters of Offer have been issued to the following projects.

Rolling Through Time

• Format: Creative Short
• Collection Item: Sir Frederick Samson Personal Film Collection
• Production Company: Lava Films
• Key Creatives: Director Jake Blackburn, Producer Marlanie Haerewa

Rolling Through Time is a short poetic documentary which will take the viewer between 2020 and the 1960s, as a skater fluidly moves through Perth and composited in the same shots is beautiful 16mm footage of the same location from the 1960s.

Eclipse

• Format: Factual Short
• Collection Item: Wallal Solar Eclipse Expedition, 1922
• Production Company: Periscope Pictures
• Key Creatives: Director/ Editor Jeremy Thomson, Producer Alice Wolfe and Co-writer Sam Field

This short documentary creatively explores how two belief systems, those of scientists and of the Nyangumarta people, witnessed the same ground-breaking event on September 21, 1922.

Perth Teen Scene

• Format: Factual Short
• Collection Item: Perth Teen Scene: photographs of the Embassy and Pagoda Ballrooms
• Production Company: Hullabaloo Co.
• Key Creatives: Producer Taylor Bates, Director Dominique Pratt, DOP David Le May

Come and join us as we look back at the legacy of the HiFi Club and the cultural shift of the time that it represented in 1960s Perth.

Murder on the Dancefloor

• Format: Dramatization / Factual Short
• Collection Item: Rex versus Audrey C. Jacob
• Production Company: Sandbox Productions
• Key Creatives: Producer Dumi Mashinini, Director/ Editor Louise Bertoncini, DOP Tim Fitzgerald

It’s 1925 and hundreds of people are dancing the foxtrot in Western Australia’s Government House, when BANG!  A gun goes off. People turn to see jilted fiancée, Audrey Jacobs, holding the pistol while standing over the bleeding body of her ex, Cyril Gidley.

What should have been an open and shut case proved to be a very different story.

Off Like Flies (Working Title)

• Format: Interview Short
• Collection Item: Roger Garwood and Trish Ainslie’s Photographs of Prospectors
• Production Company: Till Death/ Sandbox Productions
• Key Creatives: Director/Editor Mel Branson, Producer Clint Logan, DP Duane Orriss, Post Sandbox, Composer Olivia Davies,

Two veteran photographers dust off their cameras to continue a project they first started 45 years ago; a project that speaks to WA’s history… and its future.

Dreams of Iwanoff

• Format: VR Short
• Collection Item: Iwan Iwanoff architectural plans and papers
• Production Company: Frame VR
• Key Creatives: Producer/ Director Justin McArdle, Lead Programmer Gareth Lockett

Dreams of Iwanoff brings the plans and drawings of celebrated WA architect Iwan Iwanoff to life through the medium of virtual reality.

About WA Reflections – Our History Rediscovered

The State Library of Western Australia, in partnership with Screenwest, will bring untold stories to life from the State Library of Western Australia’s archival collections, experiencing them through screen for the benefit of the community.

WA Reflections – Our History Rediscovered is a capacity building program for early to mid-career Western Australian filmmakers to produce short documentary films of up to five minutes in duration. They will creatively utilise a select list of available items in the SLWA collection, with the purpose of sharing Western Australian stories.

Program Contact

For more information about this program, please contact:

Paul Williams, Documentary Manager
Screenwest
T: + 61 8 6169 2116
E:  paul.williams@screenwest.com.au

Chantal Chateauneuf, Interim Talent Development Manager
Screenwest
T: + 61 8 6169 2107
E:  chantal.chateauneuf@screenwest.com.au

Contact Screenwest

T: +61 8 6169 2100
E: info@screenwest.com.au

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